Howdy Yall! Sorry, I’ve been away for a bit… Hope that doesn’t happen again.
Well, let’s get back into it then. This is something that’s been highly irritating for the last few years. Remakes and reimaginings galore! Now, some have done an amazing job like Battlestar, Star Trek movies, and Dr. Whose. But for the most part, we’ve all heard the same dang story over and over.
This is my problem with the whole “remake” industry. It’s not just taking the franchise and rolling with a new incarnation with new ideas and new continuing “serial” episodes. It’s taking the franchise and starting from episode 1 each time. I mean, how many Spiderman origins do we need? If you don’t know how it started by now then you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade. Same with Batman, same with Hulk, same with TMNT, and so many more.
I would have no problem if they would continue the story, but when they reboot it from the beginning to only get about 2 episodes in before starting all over, I just get burnt out.
There was an interesting webisode out there that covered this (I think it was the Extra Credits crew), which stated that the reason for the remakes (and poor ones at that) is because studios purchase the licensing for that particular IP. However, these have short timeframes to hold. Meaning that if the IP is not used in x years, then the studio could lose it. Thus the many subpar remake movies. Also the same reason you’ll never see spidey or xmen in the avengers… licensing.
Not only that, but when it comes time for a new movie to be approved, old IPs are viewed as stable and reliable. That’s because they know the statistics on it and what to expect in terms of revenue. If they make something new or edgy or unique, then the risk is high and not many producers want to back that. The return could be anything. It could flop, it could do great, but when you talk about tens to hundreds of millions in backing, that isn’t something many want to gamble with. Thus, the death of artfilms and new IPs.
Ok, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, and some studios will produce new things as well, but overall the more stable the project, the more likely it will be approved for production. There is also a new hope with crowdsourcing apparatus such as Kickstarter where projects that would never be approved by studios get backing from the fans instead.
But what say you?
Remakes, reimaginings, and reboots: Annoying or just more of a good thing?
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There have been a few far in between exceptions, but for the most part, I truly hate remakes and reboots, and not only in films, either!
The worst of all is all the new reimaginings of fairy tales that have appeared in the last two or three years. The red ridding hood, which I’ve heard to be a fairy tale version of Twilight, only the girl is a huntress and falls in love with a werewolf. (I always joked about it actually being an action movie where the little girl goes to bring help to her grandma while fighting a horde of ravenous wolves, then she reunites with her grandmother, who is karate chopping and kicking a lot more wolves, and the little ridding hood gives her the basket full of “medicine”: A full deal of automatic rifles and explosives to level a continent! And that’s when the hunt is on!) and there were even two Snow White films that came out at the same time!
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SZ - Yeah, I was told to stay the heck away from that Red Riding Hood movie. Good call from what I hear. lol! What you described was the “Hoodwinked” series.
I actually liked Mirror Mirror, though Huntsman was kind of, meh. I wonder if that was just bad timing on the studios’ part. Like, did they know they were both making the same movie IP or was it by total accident? Heck, some studios will wait years before releasing a movie because it’s not the “right time”.
Now they have a new Battlestar Re-Re-Imagining… not sure how that’s going to work out, but the 2nd incarnation was great so maybe there’s hope.
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On the remake note, remakes CAN be done well and cover the plot holes and stuff in the original, but it is rarely done well so i hold a prejudice against them when i come in.
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Just in time for the release of the new Diablow update.
Man, they give you so much material to work with these days.
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I pretty much am, just dropped WoW a long time ago, got a new addiction. It’s got hooves ;P
As for reboots, it’s much more often hurtful than fulfilling to watch a remake. I’m not saying some stories don’t need remakes, but seeing how Thief 4 got retconned.. I don’t think I’m gonna play the thing anymore
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Monday's update is coming after I get off from work. so probably nighttimeish…